Tim Steneovec

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For those who've been listening to us regularly, you might remember a conversation we had yesterday.

It was with Bloomberg's Jordan Fabian, and it was about whether or not there was a focus in the White House.

We asked him, Jordan, because it was another day of nonstop social media posts and flow of thoughts, actions from President Trump and his administration.

It is again today.

It feels like it's been like that forever.

for a while, nonstop maybe for the past year, looking at that and really trying to figure out if there's a philosophy guiding President Trump and his closest advisors when it comes to his barrage of executive orders and daily challenges to the judicial system feeding a nonstop White House cycle.

is Economic Nobel Laureate, Daron Acemoglu.

He took a step back to see if there's some sort of theory and wrote about it in a Bloomberg Businessweek piece.

It's featured in the upcoming new issue that does really a deep dive into President Trump's first year in his second term.

Daron, by the way, Institute Professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.

He joins us from Cambridge.

So nice to have you here with us.

And this is a really thoughtful piece.

You took a step back.

You looked at this.

And we're just trying to understand, you know, this nonstop White House news cycle.

Is it about the president and his team controlling that news cycle?

And this is what we all chase.

You know, is it something more significant beyond just kind of a flood the zone concept that we often associate with President Trump and his team?